[JumpCrisscross]

> agree that Sheikh Hasina is extremely authoritarian and corrupt dictator but imo JeI are the actual fascists

The challenge of escalating partisanship is self-reïnforcing polarisation. The worse the leadership, the worse the opposition.

The operant question, thus, is not who is good but who is less evil, in the hope that this ratchet, a few times turned, yields goodness.

[alephnerd]

I might be a few beers in, but I don't quite understand your thesis.

Politics in developing countries is a business, not ideological.

Ain't no good guys - only bad guys.

Everyone's in on making enough out of the grift to emigrate to the US or the UK (just like Sheikh Hasina and her opponent Khalida Zia's children)

[thisislife2]

> Politics in developing countries is a business, not ideological.

What a joke! Imperialism flourished due to corporates being allowed to own their own private armies. The US is the best example of a country that exists for, and is run by corporates - and that happened because the older European powers clamped down on corporates, and they fled to the US.

[JumpCrisscross]

> that happened because the older European powers clamped down on corporates, and they fled to the US

This comment is a lot of nonsense, but this takes the cake. America has always had more powerful private interests than Europe.